American colleges struggle with gifted students and early admission
The article surveys U.S. universities facing the gifted student question after Sputnik. It notes, from University of Chicago innovations to American University programs, that four year norms may fail. leaders like Charles C. Cole Jr. call for expanded guidance and advanced opportunities at Harvard Michigan Reed Oberlin Yale Stanford Columbia Chicago Hiram Brandeis SFSU UCLA.
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Brandeis
San Francisco State
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D Day In Europe Landing Was Bloody Hell
First of four Allied landing pieces recalls the Normandy assault aboard the ship carrying U S troops on June 6 1944. Don Whitehead an AP correspondent shares the brutal early hours as naval officers warned the tough days ahead and the men endured.
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Don Whitehead
Normandy
D-Day
Invasion Night in London with Ernie Pyle
Don Whitehead recalls final hours in London with Ernie Pyle and fellow war correspondents as D-Day approaches. He notes Pyle’s premonition of danger, talks with Gen. Bradley, and the move from Weymouth to the Channel as the invasion begins with the 1st Infantry Division.
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Chelsea
Ernie Pyle
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Hyde Park
Dorchester Hotel
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Pacific
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Savoy
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Tex O'Reilly
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Cleveland Floods Strain City After Torrential Rains
Torrential rains flood Cleveland area causing millions in damage. Dozens of motorists and bus occupants rescued. three dozen treated for exposure. Basements flood citywide with streets torn up and sewers ruined. National Guard alerted in Shaker Heights. emergency declared and lifted in Eastlake.
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Cleveland
Greater Cleveland
Moncay
Anthony J Celebrezze
Shaker Heights
Wilson G. Stapleton
Stapleton
Ohio National Guard
Army Fights Rebels as Nicaragua Invades Nation Crisis Deepens
In Nicaragua, President Somoza vows annihilation of exiles who invaded from Costa Rica. Rebels led by Enrique Lacayo Farfan declare a revolution with fighting at multiple points as a 421-strong group from various universities claims participation. Government reports cite air attacks, casualties, and a stalled second landing near Matagalpa amid looming OAS intervention.
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Nicaragua
Luis Somoza
Costa Rica
Somoza
Enrique Lacayo Farfan
San Jose
U. S
Santo Tomas
Lake Nicaragua
National Guard
Matagalpa
Gas Tanker Explosion Kills Nine in Pennsylvania
A gasoline tanker exploded on Route 122 near Schuylkill Haven killing at least nine and injuring more than twenty. Eyewitnesses and police report fires spreading along the highway, with bodies and debris scattered across the area.
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State
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Earl Klinger
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Able Dies in Space Flight After Minor Operation
The Army said Able, a seven pound rhesus monkey aboard a Jupiter rocket flight, died during removal of an implanted recording electrode at Ft. Knox. The death followed rapid heart action during anesthesia and was not linked to the space mission. Baker, the other monkey, survived.
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Sudanese president arrests brigadier amid coup fears
Cairo reports President Ibrahim Abbound has arrested Brig. Abdel Rehim Shenan after Communist hopes of using him as a front man in a coup to seize power.
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Ibrahim Abbound
Abdel Rehim Shenan
East German warns Big Four on Berlin powderkeg
A Communist East German spokesman at the Big Four conference described West Berlin as a powderkeg that could ignite a world atomic conflagration. In Hemet California three Air Force men died when a jet bomber crashed on ranchland. In Washington President Eisenhower stood firm on nominating Lewis L. Strauss for commerce secretary, defying a potential withdrawal. In Galveston Louisiana Governor Earl K Long resists psychiatric treatment with reports his family may seek formal commitment.
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West Berlin
Hemet
Calif
Air Force
Galveston
Tex
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
Youth Held for Murder Of Parents in Oklahoma Texas
Clark Brillhart, 24, captured by Oklahoma Highway Patrolman LA R. E. Frusher near El Reno after a two state manhunt. He faces murder charges for the beating deaths of his parents Elmer 46 and Florence 45 at their Oklahoma dairy farm. Brillhart, who had been released on convalescent leave from Western State Hospital, declared the killings were “a terrible thing to do.”
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el Reno
R. E. Frusher
Brillhart
Oklahoma
Texas
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Florence
Brillharts
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Oklahoma Assn
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Western State Hospital
Fort Supply
Bachelor Named Megs Secretary to Princess Margaret
Maj. John Griffin, 35, a former equerry to the queen mother, was named press secretary to Princess Margaret and Queen Mother Elizabeth. He will not be a new face at Clarence House, as Buckingham Palace handles royal press relations.
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APP
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Elizabeth
Clarence House
Maj
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Buckingham Palaces
Man Crawls Into Auto Ending Iowa Town Terror
In Laconia Iowa 68 year old Ray Hardman crawled into a deputy's car after a night of fear as 25 officers hunted him following the shotgun killing of his daughter Grace 2% and wounding neighbor boy Don Neer 12. He calmed the town by surrendering after being found near a grain elevator.
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Iowa
Ru Smith
Des Moines
Ray Hardman
Grace Hardman
Don Neer
Smith
Jack Gorman
Gorman
Hardman
Long Faces New Exams By Doctors
Galveston Texas AP Louisiana's ailing Gov. Earl K. Long faces another round of diagnosis as doctors assess his condition. Officials say he is not restrained or medicated. The 63 year old governor has given no hint a physical breakdown could force resignation, a nephew states.
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Louisiana
Ear K. Long
Weather turns cooler with sunny midweek outlook
Cooler air from Canada replaces humid warmth in the Miami Valley with fair, partly cloudy skies through Wednesday. Today will be mostly sunny and mild with a high near 78, a 55 degree low expected tonight, and Wednesday’s high around 76. The discomfort index tops at 69 today.
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Miami Valley
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